CHANDIGARH: Three miscreants kidnapped a businessman in his Mercedes SUV at gunpoint from Sector 9 and released him near Elante Mall after taking a ransom of Rs 3 lakh and fled with his SUV late tonight.

MUMBAI: Aamir Khan''s big release this year - "Thugs of Hindostan" - is nearing completion as the superstar says the last leg of shooting remains, which will be wrapped up in Rajasthan by the end of next month.

RAMGARH (SAMBA): For an outburst against the BJP leadership for “abandoning” border residents at a crucial time, the police have turned a daily diary report (DDR) into an FIR, slapping sedition charges on some unidentified persons.

The police have registered an FIR against unidentified persons for shouting ‘anti-national’ slogans during the cremation of ex-serviceman Suresh Kumar Choudhary, who died recently after being injured in Pakistan shelling at the Kamore camp in Samba’s Ramgarh sector.

JAMMU: Amid simmering anger among thousands of farmers in Jammu and Samba districts, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has begun the work on the ambitious 60-km Jammu Ring Road project which is to be completed at a cost of Rs 2,100 crore.

JAMMU: Despite a warning by civic bodies that vehicular traffic on roads had reached its threshold limit in Jammu, the government continues to ignore the demands for formulating a comprehensive project to create alternative roads and flyovers to end the daily chaos in the winter capital.

JAMMU: After a series of meetings with the government failed to yield any results, the J&K Patwar Association o today went on four-day token strike in protest against the failure of the Revenue Department to address their issues.

JAMMU: In a new turn of events to the ongoing controversy over “lopsided” probe into the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua, Union Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh has said there was no harm in having a CBI probe into the case.

SRINAGAR: To protest the against shifting of the newly proposed Passport Seva Kendra from Baramulla to Bandipora, the Joint Coordination Committee comprising businessmen, lawyers and civil society members of north Kashmir have called for a rally tomorrow.

JAMMU: Governor NN Vohra inaugurated a three-day ‘J&K Literary and Cultural Festival’ on the occasion of International Mother Tongue Day, organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art Culture and Languages, here today.

JAMMU: The 44th meeting of the governing body of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Kakryal, reviewed the functioning of the hospital and, besides, took several decisions to enhance its operational capacities for providing enhanced standards of patient care.

JAMMU: The Viklang Chhatra Trust Old Care Society on Wednesday appealed to Governor NN Vohra to persuade the state government to properly compensate victims of Pakistani shelling who have lost their kin and suffered heavy losses.

SRINAGAR: Eight months have passed since the state government’s decision to shift the vendors from Hari Singh High Street to a nearby parking lot, but it has failed to do so as the vendors have refused to change the location.

JAMMU: Even as the far-off area of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir has the potential of having a university on the name of two most revered Muslim shrines of Shah Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi and Shah Asrar, politicians and leaders of the area have failed to act positively.

SRINAGAR: Long before it was afflicted by violence and its streets reverberated with sounds of slogans and gunfire, Kashmir was a place where one could hear laughter in every household in the evenings when Nazir Josh, Kashmir’s very own “Charlie Chaplin”, used to come on Doordarshan.

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal today rapped the J&K Government over its failure to submit a plan for the rehabilitation of horses and mules, which have been barred from plying from Katra to the Vaishno Devi cave shrine.

JAMMU: Over one lakh residents of 44 backward villages of Udhampur district have been at the receiving end as the successive state governments took 13 years to rectify minor typing errors, which denied them reservation and other benefits.

SRINAGAR: The J&K Police have registered a case against laywers and their agents for allegedly pasting posters in a Srinagar court premises wherein they termed Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat as the heroes of Kashmir and described Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as the heroes of India.

SRINAGAR: Stating that the porters working with the Army in J&Kshould be treated at par with the soldiers, the J&K State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has recommended to the government to frame a relief policy to deal with situations such asaccidental or unnatural deaths of porters.

Perhaps most important of all, given Le Corbusier's overall intentions in Chandigarh, was the so-called 'Open Hand' hovering on a mast like a gigantic wind vane, although the irreverent observer cannot help thinking of a base-ball glove.